Is Eragon Clean? Profanity and Content Guide for the Audiobook
Noticeable filtering across one or more categories. Comfortable to listen to with the right filters on.
16h 22m audiobook, 93 filtered segments, 1.7% of the runtime gets skipped at full strength.
Eragon is a farm boy finding a dragon egg, and that premise has pulled a lot of young readers into fantasy. If you're a parent wondering whether it's okay for a ten-year-old, the short answer is yes, with one category to think about. Of ninety-one tagged moments, seventy-one are violence, and they account for almost all of the roughly seventeen minutes filtered out of a sixteen-hour book. Most of that is moderate, with five severe, the longest about eighteen seconds. Some of the busiest stretches come near the end, where the story builds to a large battle. Everything else is light. There are thirteen profanity moments, none severe, and the words are mostly insults. There are three severe slurs, two religious exclamations, one of them severe, and a single crude humor moment and a single mention of drinking. No sexual content. That profile makes this one of the easier fantasy books to hand to a younger kid. For an eight- to ten-year-old, I'd turn on severe and moderate violence, slurs, and blasphemy, which takes out more time but softens the battles noticeably. For eleven and up, I'd filter the slurs and severe violence and leave the rest. Either way, the dragon, the journey, and the story come through, and your kid gets to finish the book and probably ask for the next one.
What we filtered
| Category | Mild | Moderate | Severe | Total | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profanity | 11 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 16s |
| Slur | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2s |
| Blasphemy | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3s |
| Violence | 19 | 47 | 5 | 71 | 16m 8s |
| Crude Humor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14s |
| Substance Use | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3s |
Profanity, by word: 3 Mild Insults, 2 b-st-rd, 2 d-mn, 2 cr-ppl-, 2 Crude Anatomy, and 5 more across 5 other words. (Word-level filters let you keep some words and skip others. Your library, your rules.)
The heaviest single chapter: Battle Under Farthen Dûr, with 12 filtered segments across all categories.
The longest single scene we flagged runs about 18s in Chapter 20 and falls under violence.
What you get back when you filter Eragon on AudioHaven
- Same book, same narrator (Gerard Doyle), same story.
- About 16m 46s of total filterable runtime, which you choose to keep or skip by category and by severity.
- Real-time skipping. The book plays straight through, with a soft cut where each segment lives.
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